My Grandpa would bug my grandma in their later years by watching so many old westerns (is there any other kind). Bless her soul, she’s complain about how he was always watching his “shoot em ups”. One time she called up practically in a nervous break down because the neighbor came over and grampa just sat there watching his shows instead of talking to the neighbor. In his defense, his hearing was going and he refused to wear his hearing aid, so he wouldn’t have been much for conversation anyway. I don’t doubt some early signs of dementia had begun as well.
TRICKY: Teeth is “lip-syncing” exceptionally well tonight, don’t you think?
LOWLY: **We **should talk! At least he’s mouthing to his **OWN **voice!
TRICKY: That’s right! I wonder who they have singing for us?
LOWLY: I can’t tell! I’m tone deaf!
And remember: “Geritol” spelled backwards is “Lotireg.”* 
*No one under the age of sixty is going to get this joke! 
MOE: And remember: “Gritto” spelled sideways is “ottrita-guh”!
I heard about an episode in which a man wished he could be in a picture on a wall in a gallery. He was thinking of a paradise scene but it turned out to be a crucifixion! :eek:
My two are this and Hee-Haw (and it can’t have had a large black audience), which followed each other in local programming and were beloved to my grandparents. What’s weird is I can remember a crap-load of Hee-Haw bits 50 years later, but I’m damned if I can recall anything about Lawrence Welk.
The show we fought about most was “Good Times” though I wasn’t a fan of most of the Norman Lear shows as a kid.
What, a “Three Stooges” reference? :dubious: 
I thought Lawrence Welk was a soap opera. The intro had all those bubbles, and it was a music based show, and I was raised by self obsessed puritans. So there!
Mr Rogers shot my paw! Actually, he was boring. So was Romper Room. Electric Company tho, now THAT was a show! I also liked the Hudson Brothers, Walter Cronkite’s You Were There, Disney nature shows, Star Trek (TOS first run and reruns), Mission Impossible, Get Smart, Hogan’s Heroes (which had nothing to do with sandwiches), and Petticoat Junction.
- Do you remember Charley Pride?
- “An’ now, the Lennon Sisters sing-a, ‘Go away, Mother, You’re Gummin’ Up the Works!’ A-one, a-two…”
- Do you remember Charley Pride?
- “An’ now, the Lennon Sisters sing-a, ‘Go away, Mother, You’re Gummin’ Up the Works!’ A-one, a-two…”
I liked Sonny and Cher, the Dean Martin Show, and the Donny and Marie. I did not like Merve Griffin’s, Andy Williams’, or Art Linkletter’s shows. Diana Shore bored me too, but I liked game shows.
I caught these gems around 1969:
When introducing the token Negro tap-dancer: “He’s a fine gentleman, and a credit to his race.”*
After the Lennon Sisters had finished “What the World Needs Now Is Love, Sweet Love”: “Thank you girls, I’ll certainly agree with that philosophy-um!”
*In other words, “He knows his place!”
That was in the original hour-and-a-half pilot show. The middle episode (The adventures of blind Joan Crawford) was the maiden effort of some kid named Spielberg. The first had Roddy McDowall and Ozzie Davis and was the most fun.
It was the earwig episode, wasn’t it?
Granny didn’t make moonshine. She was a doctor, so she was just mixing up her medicines.
I loved Myron Floren’s “cough” when he was introducing it, as if he was lighting one up during the commercial break.
The one and only cereal that’s shot from guns.
The one and only cereal that’s about from guns.
(Sung to the 1812 Overture.
Looking back, the biggest clue that I didn’t like a show was that the only thing I remember about it was its theme song. I was always happy to hear the closing music for “The Banana Splits” because it came on just before the good cartoons. I would get bored with “The Partridge Family” 30 seconds after the theme song ended. I couldn’t stand “Soul Train”, but I’d stick around to hear “T.S.O.P.” and try to mimic the announcer saying “The Sooooooouuuull Traaain”!
Ah, but what the heck did I know? When I was a kid I thought “Batman” was brilliant! 
Me and my friends knew “Soooooooouuuul Traaaain”! was our cue to go outside and play cuz cartoons were done until next week.
They did this quite often on the animated Star Trek series, too. To save money, Filmation would animate Kirk or some other character speaking with their hand in front of their mouth so they could reuse the same animation over and over for different episodes.